Week 2 Math + Art
I always knew that math and art went hand and hand. I have never gone into this much thought on why. In art, you may want to use math to make dimensions or making shapes. In Lecture Professor mentions that Leonardo da Vinci the master of fusing mathematics and art together believed that, Perspective is a rational demonstration by which experience confirms that the images of all things are transmitted to the eye by pyramidal lines. Perspective allows the artist to be able to draw something on a piece of flat paper and still look three dimensional.
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| “Relativity” by M.C. Escher |
In the very famous art piece “Relativity” by M.C. Escher we can see how art and math work to together make an amazing picture. Escher can incorporate perspective to make it appear that the staircases in the picture are defying gravity. There seem to be 3 different gravity sources in the same picture. The characters are not floating off in space they are still able to walk and down the stairs. In real life, there is only one gravity source in which we all live in. In the picture, Escher does not apply normal physical laws. In the article #25: Relativity by Scott M McDaniel, McDaniel analysis the picture stating that "Escher uses three-point perspective for Relativity. That’s not too unusual." I really loved this picture because you can look at this picture from so many different angles, which makes it extremely fascinating. In the article The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art: Conclusion by Linda Dalrymple Henderson we see that “relativity simply added a second, temporal definition to the fourth dimension and, in his view, further undermined accepted ideas about the nature of reality.”
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| The number zero |
This week’s lecture was so intriguing. I remember hearing about Y2K but didn’t really know what happened. To know it was caused by the number zero is funny. People really thought all the computers would crash and it was the end of the world. I was only 3 at the time of this.
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| Cover of Time Magazine January 1999 |
References
"New Year's Eve 15 Years Ago: How We Prepped for Y2K." Time. Time, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2017.
"#25: Relativity by M. C. Escher." Ideas Made of Light. N.p., 01 Feb. 2010. Web. 17 Apr. 2017.
Henderson, Linda Dalrymple. "The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art: Conclusion." Leonardo 17.3 (1984): 205. Web.
http://www.mcescher.com/gallery/back-in-holland/relativity/
Vesna, Victoria . "Math Art." DESMA9. UCLA, Los Angeles. 16 Apr. 2017. Lecture.
I thought it was interesting learning about perspective since IV had to take a drawing class at UCLA. We learned one point, two point and three point perspective throughout the entire class and felt like perspective was a giant focus on what we did. Lots of straight rulers were using when learning and doing these different perspective techniques to get our lines straight, which is so interesting to think about cause most people would never think to use rulers with fine art drawing and using them in a conseptual are school. In order to create perspective and dimension in a drawing you had to draw a bunch of base lines so that all the horizon line and everything matches up. It certainly was a lot more math then I thought for a drawing class.
ReplyDeleteI also really enjoyed this weeks lecture! I really like the artist you chose to discuss. The 3 point gravity and perspective used by Escher is very interesting. Escher's use of alternative physics is an interesting twist to this weeks lecture that focused on applications of established mathematical and physical concepts.
ReplyDeleteThe picture that you elaborated on in your post has always been one that perplexed me because of all of its dimensions. I see it all over the internet and it has also been used in a couple of movies and cartoons where the characters enter the picture and you can see what it would be like to function inside of the picture if we were physically able to. However, I never thought about it being a work of art that used math in order to create it. Nonetheless, the picture actually makes more sense if you think about it from a mathematical point of view and I am glad that you shared this with us because I now have a better understanding of the painting.
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